After A -0.13% Drop In The Last Week, Does Bloomin Brands Inc (NASDAQ: BLMN) Still Make Sense To Buy?

During the last session, Bloomin Brands Inc (NASDAQ:BLMN)’s traded shares were 2.32 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.72. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $7.93, reflecting an intraday loss of -2.94% or -$0.24. The 52-week high for the BLMN share is $29.10, that puts it down -266.96 from that peak though still a striking 2.65% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $7.72. The company’s market capitalization is $673.50M, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 2.83 million shares, and the average trade volume was 2.36 million shares over the past three months.

Bloomin Brands Inc (BLMN) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 3.08. BLMN has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 9 analysts who have looked at this stock. 4 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 5 recommend a Buy rating for it. 0 analyst(s) has rated the stock Underweight. Company’s earnings per share (EPS) for the current quarter are expected to be 0.57.

Bloomin Brands Inc (NASDAQ:BLMN) trade information

Bloomin Brands Inc (BLMN) registered a -2.94% downside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock plummet -2.94% in intraday trading to $7.93, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -0.13%, and it has moved by -33.36% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -70.96%. The short interest in Bloomin Brands Inc (NASDAQ:BLMN) is 7.36 million shares and it means that shorts have 2.16 day(s) to cover.

The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $14.5, which implies an increase of 45.31% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $11 and $16 respectively. As a result, BLMN is trading at a discount of -101.77% off the target high and -38.71% off the low.

Bloomin Brands Inc (BLMN) estimates and forecasts

In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will decrease -12.04% compared to the previous financial year.

As companies strive to predict their financial trajectories, we turn our attention to the forthcoming financial quarter. Here are the insights gathered from industry analysts. Revenue for the current quarter is expected to be 1.04B as predicted by 9 analyst(s). Meanwhile, a consensus of 9 analyst(s) estimates revenue growth to 987.24M by the end of current fiscal year. As per earnings report from last fiscal year’s results, sales for the corresponding quarters totaled 1.2B and 1.12B respectively. In this case, analysts expect current quarter sales to shrink by -13.13% and then drop by -11.76% in the coming quarter.

While earnings are projected to return -26.52% in 2025, the next five years will return -4.03% per annum.

BLMN Dividends

Bloomin Brands Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2025-Feb-25. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance. Investors should also take the other fundamental and operational aspects into account before investing in the stock. The forward dividend ratio for Bloomin Brands Inc is 0.87, with the dividend yield indicating at 10.97 percent, continuing the trend of increasing dividends in recent years. The average dividend yield of the company for the last 5 years is 1.92%.

Bloomin Brands Inc (NASDAQ:BLMN)’s Major holders

Bloomin Brands Inc insiders own 2.46% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 107.04%, with the float percentage being 109.74%. BLACKROCK INC. is the largest shareholder of the company, while 326.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 12.71 million shares (or 14.6647% of all shares), a total value of $244.46 million in shares.

The next largest institutional holding, with 11.8 million shares, is of VANGUARD GROUP INC’s that is approximately 13.6072% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $226.83 million.

Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Bloomin Brands Inc (BLMN) shares are iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . Data provided on Feb 28, 2025 indicates that iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF owns about 4.84 shares. This amounts to just over 5.69 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $38.35 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 2.24, or about 2.63% of the stock, which is worth about $17.73 million.